#raf

My childhood was really comfortable and secure, but school was a nightmare. I was a lot taller than the other girls and they called me Gitte the giraffe. ↗

— Brigitte Nielsen

#childhood #comfortable #giraffe #i #lot

To try to really land a spacecraft really on another world is really difficult, and if we lose that ability, it's going to be heartbreaking. ↗

— Bill Nye

#another #difficult #going #heartbreaking #land

That is the godawful thing about television today. Performers don't have any place to hit and miss. You're either in or you're out; you don't have a chance to become good at your craft. If you make three pictures in a row and they don't go over, you're out of the business. ↗

— Donald O'Connor

#any #awful thing #become #business #chance

Back then I said to myself 'screw football.' Actually I just took part in this camp as there was nothing better for me to do. They also didn't draft me because they thought I was too wild and undisciplined. ↗

— Ed O'Neill

#also #back #because #better #camp

Political systems are run by self-selecting politicians. We don't draft people; it's not jury duty. ↗

— P. J. O'Rourke

#duty #jury #jury duty #people #political

I was 19 years old, pumping gas and going nowhere. I was kind of a high school dropout at that point because I had left school to play hockey, but no one drafted me. ↗

— Adam Oates

#drafted #gas #going #had #high

Their spirits and their visions are embodied in their craft. And so is mine. It's not Jane Saw Puff. But the clarity of Jane Saw Puff is precious to me. ↗

— Sharon Olds

#craft #embodied #jane #me #mine

Well you can't teach the poetry, but you can teach the craft. ↗

— David Hockney

#poetry #teach #well #you

This sympathy is not translated into force against the British government because it is not like the anti- apartheid movement which had a high profile here and Mandela is a more engaging figure than Yasser Arafat. ↗

— Tom Paulin

#apartheid #arafat #because #british #british government

I'm going to introduce you to a revolutionary thought - you can go slower and get there quicker. And that's to do with flow. As soon as you made it two lanes and brought in the 70 (mph) and 50 (mph), you got there quicker. It meant the flow of the traffic was better, there were less accidents, less deaths, I think that's an important factor. ↗

— John Prescott

#better #brought #deaths #factor #flow